Hasan Piker, the biggest progressive political streamer in America, was detained by Customs and Border Protection for hours of questioning upon returning to the U.S. from a trip to France this weekend. Piker posted about the incident on X and later talked about it on stream.

He was detained in Chiago and questioned for two hours about protected journalistic activities like who he’s interviewed and his political beliefs. He was asked whether or not he’d interviewed Hamas, Houthis, or Hezbollah members. He was questioned about his opinions on Trump and Israel and asked about his history of bans on Twitch. His phone and laptop were not confiscated.

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    18 hours ago

    Each of those goals are pursued by means of terrorism.

    There were people pursuing those goals before Hezbollah existed. AFAIK they merely added the tool of terrorism.

    Am not an expert in this field. If someone is and can take us deeper I would appreciate it.

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        6 hours ago

        Except when it literally is suicide attacks on civilians as innovated by Hezbollah That is pretty black and white.

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          5 hours ago

          You said that terrorism is their only reasons for existing, it’s clearly not as I’ve already demonstrated.

          If they invented suicide bombing or drone bombing, I don’t give a shit. It doesn’t change the fact that they are very clearly more than simply “terrorism” as you believe.